How to Make a Customer Lifetime Value Prediction
How much is each one of your customers worth? How much should you spend to acquire them? What about to retain them? Customer lifetime value…
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Predicting Lifetime Value (LTV) Before a Prospect Becomes a Customer
How Car Salespeople Figure Out Your Value to Them Have you ever noticed how car sales executives try to estimate your financial worth with small…
DataOps Principles: How Startups Do Data The Right Way
If you have been trying to harness the power of data science and machine learning — but, like many teams, struggling to produce results —…
The Lifetime Value of Your Professional Relationships
How important is your co-worker to you? How about your manager or mentor? Let’s use data science to explore the value of professional relationships. Start…
Data Science Recipes
If you’ve been trying to leverage the power of data science – but, like many teams, feeling overwhelmed and unproductive — you’re not alone. Data…
The Secret Business Metric You Are Missing
You are a modern consumer product company looking for the next advantage in the market. You were born digitally transformed; you’ve built marketing and distribution…
Mary Meeker Report Highlights LTV-to-CAC Ratio
Last week, Mary Meeker released her 2019 Internet Trends Report – and the Retina team was at Vox/Recode’s Code Conference to see it. In her…
Busting 5 Common Myths About the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
At Retina, we model the customer data of our clients to derive predictive lifetime value (LTV) insights. We live and breathe in petabytes of customer…
Cluster Messy Data with Generalized Low Rank Models
Clustering is a powerful way to use the features of individuals to group similar individuals together. This enables businesses to understand and take action based…
DataOps Principles: How Startups Do Data The Right Way
If you have been trying to harness the power of data science and machine learning — but, like many teams, struggling to produce results —…
Why Game of Thrones Episode 8.3 Was Objectively Bad
Unfortunately, I watched Game of Thrones season 8 episode 3. [SPOILERS WARNING BELOW] On Game of Thrones fandom, I imagine I fall somewhere in the…